Yet another series of articles on Dubai
Apr 13th 2010, 7:50 am
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Yet another series of articles on Dubai
pretty good series of articles
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N16/dubai.html
" If there is an urban analogue to shock and awe military campaigns, Dubai is it. Giant malls, grand hotels, towering skyscrapers, indoor ski slopes, islands shaped like palm trees; to be poetic about it, what the mind imagines, the Emiratis built"
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N17/dubai.html
"I came to Dubai expecting some degree of culture shock. But there is a distinction between struggling to adapt because something is different and struggling to adapt because something is abhorrent. Dubai is a dictatorship, perhaps benevolent, but still a dictatorship"
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
"The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell"
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N19/dubai.html
"My impression of the average Emirati businessman varies between apathetic and self-important. They are running businesses much in the same way a teenager would buy clothes with a swoosh on them — they aren’t trying to generate profits so much as they are adopting a lifestyle brand. Their empires are not built for power, they are built for image. When you are born with everything, the one thing that you cannot buy is the sense that you earned your status. But it is counter-productive to try and scrub off the image that you lucked your way into wealth — trying to overstep one’s limitations only highlights them."
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N16/dubai.html
" If there is an urban analogue to shock and awe military campaigns, Dubai is it. Giant malls, grand hotels, towering skyscrapers, indoor ski slopes, islands shaped like palm trees; to be poetic about it, what the mind imagines, the Emiratis built"
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N17/dubai.html
"I came to Dubai expecting some degree of culture shock. But there is a distinction between struggling to adapt because something is different and struggling to adapt because something is abhorrent. Dubai is a dictatorship, perhaps benevolent, but still a dictatorship"
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
"The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell"
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N19/dubai.html
"My impression of the average Emirati businessman varies between apathetic and self-important. They are running businesses much in the same way a teenager would buy clothes with a swoosh on them — they aren’t trying to generate profits so much as they are adopting a lifestyle brand. Their empires are not built for power, they are built for image. When you are born with everything, the one thing that you cannot buy is the sense that you earned your status. But it is counter-productive to try and scrub off the image that you lucked your way into wealth — trying to overstep one’s limitations only highlights them."
Apr 13th 2010, 6:20 pm
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Re: Yet another series of articles on Dubai
Eh. I don't like the writer.
A bunch of good points about Dubai, but he's an insufferable know it all. 7 months in the UAE doesn't give you a solid look at the place, just as the glass towers themselves don't give you the entire story of Dubai.
Mind you I am no fan of this place and he's right to question Dubai's future and the schmucks who run this country. Wish I had his package, though.
A bunch of good points about Dubai, but he's an insufferable know it all. 7 months in the UAE doesn't give you a solid look at the place, just as the glass towers themselves don't give you the entire story of Dubai.
Mind you I am no fan of this place and he's right to question Dubai's future and the schmucks who run this country. Wish I had his package, though.
Apr 14th 2010, 5:55 am
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